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Property

Valerie Martin

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Property won the Orange Prize. Set in 1828 on a Louisiana sugar plantation, this novel presents a fresh, unsentimental look at what slave-owning does to (and for) one's interior life. Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self-absorbed, seethes under the dominion of her boorish husband. In particular his relationship with her slave Sarah, who is both his victim and his mistress. Exploring the permutations of Manon's own obsession with Sarah against the backdrop of an impending slave rebellion, Property unfolds with the speed and menace of heat lightning, casting a startling light from the past upon the assumptions we still make about the powerful and powerless.

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Publisher
Vintage
ISBN-13
9780307427342
Genre
Fiction
Topics
SlaveryPower and oppressionMarriage and domestic discontentObsession and controlRebellion

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